Hello and thank you for letting me join your community, I am hoping to find lots of useful information. I am a lifetime and full-time wheelchair user. I am totally independent, however now I am getting older (55) I am finding it more difficult to access things and remain the independent lady that I have always been!
I have been with movability for over 30 years now, and without their service and help with grants to enable a WAV vehicle I wouldn't be as independent as I have been. However my vehicle is now up for renewal and they are saying because I don't work that I may not be able to get a grant to drive from wheelchair, and asking if someone else can drive for me, I feel so upset about this, I don't know what I will do if I am no longer able to drive myself, I live in quite a rural area I have regular hospital appointments to attend and my family live all over the country, which I go and see them often. Motability said if I was a volunteer then there is a possibility that I may be accepted, but only if the volunteer work was going out and not at home. They have also told me they would check that I would be going to the volunteering place that I put on the form and would need evidence of this. They put a tracker in your vehicle so I am aware they can track my every move, I don't have an issue of them tracking me, but unfortunately I don't volunteer and I am not sure what I should do. I have considered volunteering before but I am very nervous about being around people I don't know.
I feel sick about all of this and my anxiety has shot through the roof. I have some serious health conditions along side of my Disability that I have had all my life being a paraplegic. This has not helped my health as my blood pressure has gone up since receiving this information.
Any advice or help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thank you
